Orienteering

EOC in Italy was not a failure but neither did I manage to qualify for any final race which was disspointing

The orienteering season slowly comes to an end. Ater Switzerland last year it is apparently Italy´s turn again to hold the last Worldcup round in form of the European Sprint Championships in the region of Verona. Since ASOM, my ankle has been getting more and more stable so I dared Read more…

Okay, I know the title is a bit of a click-bait. I might as well have written addicted to elite orienteering but this sounds less destructive. However, does the title not come from pure harmony so let the diary entry begin.  In August I finally spend some time with the Read more…

It has been a while simply because I wasn´t really running any races. With the second World-Cup round in the Czech Republic my international season will finally start as well. Pushing goals back, is what this season feels like so far. Already the word season feels wrong to describe this Read more…

Analyzing this year´s 10Mila results together with current WRE-data.

After many weeks of almost problem-free winter training, I hit a bumb in the road. A quite unlucky timing lead to a missed season start, leaving me basically without much race experience so far this year. But I am finally ahead of things again and am looking forward to running Read more…

This post is about my personal frustration with (official) sports sponsoring and sports-related scholarships in Germany. I needed to put my thoughts into words, for my own sake and to make it at least a bit more public.

My training continues going well. While the volume has been going a bit down in January and February, the intensity as been going up a bit.

Training, gear and motivation